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Page last updated at 09:58 GMT, Wednesday, 10 February 2010

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Military hospitals such as Selly Oak, Birmingham, are under growing pressure from the large number of troops being injured.
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Contractors begin work to demolish Coseley's swimming baths, despite a campaign to save them.

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Three 16-storey tower blocks from the 1960s in Birchfield, Birmingham, are being to make way for renovation.

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The battle to keep Birmingham's inner-city crime gangs in check has cost almost £38m in 40 years, a report claims.

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A 19-year-old man from the West Midlands is jailed for using a webcam to incite a woman from the US to abuse her own child.
Part of hoard returns for display
Part of the Staffordshire Hoard, a selection of Anglo-Saxon artefacts, is arriving at a Stoke-on-Trent museum.

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Police are investigating after a man is found dead in a house fire in the Stirchley area of Birmingham.
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